Karolina Pliskova was all smiles as she stopped over in Prague on her way from the Wimbledon final to her maiden Olympic tournament at Tokyo on Monday.

Two days after losing the Wimbledon final to Ashleigh Barty in three sets, Pliskova hailed the tournament as a success that was due in part to a change in her mindset.

“I see it as a success rather than a failure. It’s not as if I played a final every other day,” Pliskova told a news conference at a Prague tennis academy bearing her name.

 

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